#BOI

[clownshifting]

AAVE specific genders/roles

Boi is a gender referring to masculinity stemming from outside of white cishetnormativity, used in other contexts to talk about queer or black transmasc masculinity. Boy and Boi were also used by white men and women to demean grown black men and reposition them as younger and therefore lower on the caste. Boi is then used as a reclamation of said term.

Boi is not the same as the western binary gender, which was made similarly to the white race to enforce the difference between black men and white men, even id both are considered males. Since male is a scientific term and man is a gender, black men were denied manhood as a way to further dehumanize them from society, especially since black men were typically used as "breeding bulls" to increase profit for plantation owners during slavery, and this phenomenon is still used to this day in kink spaces.

Boi not only focuses on uplifting black masculinity but deconstructing toxic masculinity learned from the white man in order to "get by". Black men are deemed aggressive and less innocent daily, are institutionalized more than any other race, and deal with microagressions that force them to code switch often and play along with the gender roles of white people, leading them to fall into right wing pipelines. Reclaimed, boi serves as a gender for those who wish to discover themselves outside of the white gaze of manhood.

Boi flag & Boi symbol

Gurl/Qirl is a gender related to femininity outside of white cishetnormativity. Gurl is usually used as a way to refer to women with sass or flamboyance, and can be reclaimed. Other terms include "huzz" and "girldem" (but are discouraged to be used as they objectify women.)

Black women are often sorted into two categories, hypersexual or aggressive protectors - seen in the Jezebel and Mammy stereotypes. Due to the climate of the slave trade, enslaved women were then viewed as lustful and welcoming to any and all caretaking (wet-nursing, used to increase profit by forced pregnancy). The increased sexualization of black girls and women in those times and today made for the term qirl to be used as empowering the self while also recognizing that the mistreatment of black women is inherently about their body and their roots in African culture. To this day, black women and girls are demeaned and harassed publicly by other races/genders and are called "ghetto" and "thots" for the same trope of them looking like Jezebels and demons.

Not only does qirl as a gender reclaim that history and use it to further themselves from white womanhood (as white women were less likely to actually care for their own children at the time), qirl is the opposite of those sterotypes and includes femininity that isn't sexual, isn't always violent, and isn't always about the body but the mind, the intelligence, and the excellence in their knowledge.

Qirl flag & Qirl symbol

Bree/Mop are jive terms, mostly relating to black cis womanhood in the jazz scene and those who seemed to present in such way, usually femininely. Other terms include duchess, wren, queen, and chick. For young/girlhood, "pigeon" is the right term.

These terms are usually used not as genders but as presentations of genders, in this case, the presentation of cis qirls. While not all qirls present using jazz representation, it is important to note that jazz and blues were made by african american people, and therefore any ethnic history a qirl has might uniquely stem from jazz influence or culture. This is the same for rock and hip hop.

Gate/Lane are masculine jive terms. They refer to all black cis men, but lane specifically refers to a younger "unprofessional" black man. A jack refers to a group of black men and pops is fathering age, usually 30+.

The same that was said about cis bree qirls can be said about cis gate bois. I will personally say that anyone can reclaim these two terms as a trans boi/qirl and it won't bother me or anyone else but they were used to refer to cishood and might reflect that way due to the climate around cross-dressing and queer people during the time (which was more violent than it is today).

Nullagender, Nulla, is someone lacking a gender (genderless) due to not relating to the white womanhood and manhood binaries of Western society. Is specifically for black people who feel left out of the gender binary for their race and have chosen to deny it all together and become a nulla.

Nulla sounds similarly to the n-word and might be pronounced that way too. It may or may not have been the intention. There are many black genderqueer or agender people who have experiences where they feel as though the gender binary is exclusively used to justify whiteness being higher than other races, with some races not being able to experience Western gender because of this, so said black agender folk become distant or reclaim the feeling of not fitting in in order to defy the gender binary completely.

Nulla flag

Boi-qirl is a term coined in 2023 by mogaimagic in relation to the previous terms. Boi-qirl can be spelled boiqirl, boi-qirl, or boirl without changing pronunciation. It is a bigender term where a black person is both a boi and a qirl, whether cis or trans. Boiqirlflux is a genderflux term for those who are bois and also qirls and fluctuate between the two.

Boiqirlflux flag & Boi-qirl symbol

Soul is a gender modality that is used similarly to trans, and refers to african american experiences where one’s identity is made up of two warring souls, the gender and the body. Both these souls can either be the same (similar to cis) or they can be different (similar to trans), where the souls can also be different genders outside of the western binary/binary sexes - including intersex and intergender folk.

Soul is the creation of black roles that do not conform to the binary and do not establish a patriarchy or matriarchy, centering joy and happiness rather than being used to oppress others. When referring to someone who is "of Soul" and mentioning the identity, Soul as an identity will always be capitalized. Someone can also be Soul, and does not have to adhere to the convention of saying "blank of Soul". Other terms like Soul sib, Soul sista, Soul brotha, or Soul boi/qirl are used too.

(My rendition) Soul flag & Soul symbol

@radiomogai

[jynjackets]

how do we explain to the dumb bitches in the room that pretending to care about a woman glup shitto NOT for her character but because of her role in serving your favorite men isn’t the feminist gotcha that you think it is

[eiden404]

STANNY BOYYY

(Doodling around with new brush)

[queermasculine]

Two butches playing pool, from Sophia Wallace's "Girls will be Bois" series, 2002–2007.

[rubbish78]

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan Howlett shirtless moments

[pinacoladamatata]

the entire party after learning about what Astarion's scars mean

[ticklewarrior56]

ticklewarrior56 strikes again

[idkfandoms-b8o]

TRANS RIGHTS MOTHAFUKAS!!!!!!

[sealdev]

I am the most fluffy

[catfindr]

[givemecoins]

↓ Alt boi & qirl flags

Boi: An identity specific to black people which is similar to boy but involves a deliberate separation from the Western gender binary.

Qirl: An identity specific to black people which is similar to girl but involves a deliberate separation from the Western gender binary.

Not my terms. I just find the combination of colors of the original flags not very....pleasant, and as a black person I wanted flags that referred to blackhood in a more explicit way.

• Related links: First link | Second link | Third link.

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@radiomogai

[wormsical]

isaac we love you

[user-without-a-cool-acronym]

give me a chance, a single opportunity and i‘ll overcome these obstacles and scrutiny and-

[myrosrava]

Binny 💜💜💜

[carpa1tunneloflove]

hai pete wentz edit i love him so much :3